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Raga rock is rock or pop music with a heavy Indian influence either in its construction its timbre or its use of instrumentation such as the sitar and tabla. More recently scholars have included British rock music from the 1960s and 1970s that utilizes South Asian musical materials and instruments and Western ideas of South Asia.Raga rock is not normally considered a specific genre of music but rather a general aspect of any rock significantly influenced by Indian classical music.